Facebook's first engineering office outside the US opened in London on Tuesday, after the company announced in July this year that it was looking to hire 22 techies in the UK.
The dominant social network chose not to move East to the British government-lauded Silicon Roundabout, instead preferring to keep its engineers within …

Re: London isn't expensive.

Not necessarily a net gain

A couple of years ago that office used to be fully populated with Expedia people, including a good number of techies. The fact that Facebook are moving in suggests that all is not well in Expedia land...

I worked there for a while, before deciding that free soft drinks and a rooftop bar where less appealing than the money in the City.